Microsoft Pushes Ads in Windows 11 Start Menu Of All Places

Microsoft Pushes Ads in Windows 11 Start Menu Of All Places

Ads, we all hate them. Not Microsoft… they are very keen to serve you with all kinds of ads in all places you wouldn’t necessarily imagine. This time it’s the Start Menu of Windows 11 – specifically, the user options.

Twitter user Albacore spotted this in their Windows 11 PC:

Of course this is not the first time Microsoft has been testing waters on where to place their ads on just to push Windows users deeper into their ecosystem – the venerable File Explorer was once a receiving end of that. While this is arguably less in-your-face unlike the notification popups or even full-blown full-screen message telling you to sign up to OneDrive – it’s still very much an ad that just takes a more ‘subliminal messaging’ approach.

Case in point: Microsoft tested ads inside File Explorer just a few months ago within the Windows 11 insider build. (Credit: Twitter @flobo09)

Some other users has not seen this popping in their PCs so far, so it’s likely a small-scale test from Microsoft to see the response from its users.

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